Three years after it was made in metro Detroit, “Red Dawn” hits the silver screen Wednesday just in time for a holiday weekend reserved for Hollywood blockbusters.

The remake of the 1984 homeland invasion film might not live up to the original plot that played on Cold War fears. Is anyone really afraid that South Korea has the money and manpower to parachute in and take over the United States?

However, movie-goers are sure to be glued to their seats looking for people and places they know. “Red Dawn” used some 4,000 extras, including the Oakland University marching band, in scenes filmed all over Detroit and its suburbs.

The action starts with a football game at the closed Notre Dame High School, Harper Woods, followed by a pizza parlor gathering at what is actually The Mitt, Mount Clemens.

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Royal Oak residents will notice neighbors’ house on Greenleaf Avenue and extra Laurie Valko of Lake Orion stands out in a political rally filmed at Lafayette Square, Detroit.

Downtown Pontiac and the woods of Grand Ledge also survived the cutting-room floor in the estimated $75 million film that stars Josh Peck, Chris Hemsworth, Brett Cullen, Isabel Lucas, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, and Connor Cruise, the adopted son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.